FDA orders ban on all trans fat

[Liffy]

This is huge.

 

[Socialist]

Within three years.

 

[Liffy]

Within three years.

Still huge

 

[martybegan]

Just wait 10 more years and a study will come out saying trans-fats were not as bad as we thought they were.

Butter bad! Margarine good!
oh wait,
Margarine bad! Butter Good!

 

[there4eyeM]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

These fools can't even decide if eggs are good or bad

 

[Liffy]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

You mean positive accomplishment?

 

[Socialist]

In all honesty, this is good

 

[orogenicman]

This is huge.

Indeed. Fat tends to make one huge.

 

[martybegan]

These fools can't even decide if eggs are good or bad

The fact that this is an issue for a federal level government agency is quite frankly ludicrous.

 

[orogenicman]

Trans fat - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Trans fats, or trans-unsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, are a type of unsaturated fats which are uncommon in nature but became commonly produced industrially from vegetable fats for use in margarine, snack food, packaged baked goods and frying fast food starting in the 1950s.[1][2][3] Trans fat has been shown to consistently be associated, in an intake-dependent way, with risk of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death.[4]

Fats contain long hydrocarbon chains, which can either be unsaturated, i.e. have double bonds, or saturated, i.e. have no double bonds. In nature, unsaturated fatty acids generally have cis (as opposed to trans) configurations.[5] In food production, liquid cis-unsaturated fats such as vegetable oils are hydrogenated to produce saturated fats, which have more desirable physical properties, e.g. they melt at a desirable temperature (30–40 °C). Partial hydrogenation of the unsaturated fat converts some of the cis double bonds into trans double bonds by an isomerization reaction with the catalyst used for the hydrogenation, which yields a trans fat.[1][2] Although trans fats are edible, consumption of trans fats has shown to increase the risk of coronary heart disease[6][7] in part by raising levels of the lipoprotein LDL (so-called "bad cholesterol"), lowering levels of the lipoprotein HDL ("good cholesterol"), increasing triglycerides in the bloodstream and promoting systemic inflammation.[8] Trans fats also occur naturally in a limited number of cases. Vaccenyl and conjugated linoleyl (CLA) containing trans fats occur naturally in trace amounts in meat and dairy products from ruminants. Most artificial trans fats are chemically different from natural trans fats, but there is no scientific consensus about differences in their health effects. Two Canadian studies[9][10] have shown that the natural trans fat vaccenic acid, found in beef and dairy products, could actually be beneficial compared to hydrogenated vegetable shortening, or a mixture of pork lard and soy fat,[10] by lowering total and LDL and triglyceride levels.[11][12][13] A study by the US Department of Agriculture showed that vaccenic acid raises both HDL and LDL cholesterol, whereas industrial trans fats only raise LDL without any beneficial effect on HDL.[14] In light of recognized evidence and scientific agreement, nutritional authorities consider all trans fats as equally harmful for health[15][16][17] and recommend that consumption of trans fats be reduced to trace amounts.[18][19][not in citation given]

In 2013 the United States FDA issued a preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils (which contain trans fats) are not "generally recognized as safe", which is expected to lead to a ban on industrially produced trans fats from the American diet.[2] In other countries, there are legal limits to trans fat content. Trans fats levels can be reduced or eliminated using saturated fats such as lard, palm oil or fully hydrogenated fats, or by using interesterified fat. Other alternative formulations can also allow unsaturated fats to be used to replace saturated or partially hydrogenated fats. Hydrogenated oil is not a synonym for trans fat: complete hydrogenation removes all unsaturated fats, both cis and trans forms.

 

[there4eyeM]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

THIS is what I meant and mean.

 

[Socialist]

I'm curious how this will affect fast food..

 

[Liffy]

My question is... What's gonna happen to all these foods? Can they produce these foods without transfat? There is bigger shit to talk about here than saying fda can't do this fda can't do that.

 

[there4eyeM]

In an article I read, it said McDo had stopped a decade ago, and that some others have since.

 

[Liffy]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

THIS is what I meant and mean.

Manifestation is an odd term to use in this context maybe even inappropriate unless hou actually got something deep to say which you obviously don't.

 

[martybegan]

I'm curious how this will affect fast food..

They will have to switch back to lard. (not a bad thing actually)

 

[mdk]

I am of sound enough mind to know that eating foods riddled with trans-fat consistently, will make me a lard ass. I don't need the government to make this decesion for me. I already have a mother.

 

[there4eyeM]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

THIS is what I meant and mean.

from American Heritage Dictionary:

1. The definition of a manifestation is the proof of the reality of something, often a site or a smell.
   An example of manifestation is the smile on a woman's face when her husband appears, showing how much she loves him.

Apologies accepted.

 

[Liffy]

This is a positive manifestation of collective action.

THIS is what I meant and mean.

from American Heritage Dictionary:

1. The definition of a manifestation is the proof of the reality of something, often a site or a smell.
   An example of manifestation is the smile on a woman's face when her husband appears, showing how much she loves him.

Apologies accepted.

No one uses manifestation like that anymore not since like 1256 bc